Hi Stoyo,

I'm working with the grid in FlowChart.Net and I would like to ask a few things about it..

1. After I set the grid to visible (showGrid()) my application is noticeable slower, mainly when I move objects.
Is there something I've to consider in regard of using the showGrid() method, what steals my application performance? I've used GridStyle.Points as style.

2. So far the grid points never start at 0,0 of the document. There is always a small space between the first line of points and the border of the document, but this space fits never the current grid size, it seems the space is the half of the grid size, therefore I think something is wrong with it.

3. The ruler marks do not corresponding to the position of a selected object in the document, they are always a bit displaced.

4. The size of the document and the size the ruler shows do not correspond. Mostly the ruler tells me that the document is a bit smaller than it should be (in regard of its original size) , eg. original width is 148 and ruler shows 140.  If I zoom out it gets even worse.
My hunch tells me that there is some connection between 3 and 4

Do you know why these things happen? Is there some common thing I've overlooked? Something I should pay attention when I using grid and ruler?


Thanks

Thorsten

Regarding the grid - perhaps there are too many points visible. What are your GridSize and ZoomFactor values? I can't see any noticeable delay with 1mm grid on my 256MB / 1.6Ghz laptop though.

You are right about the offset - the first point is drawn at [GridSizeX / 2, GridSizeY / 2]. Another customer requested a GridOffset property sometime ago; now that you need it too,  maybe I should move it towards the top of the wishlist we have for FlowChart.NET (there are more than 100 wishes there now )

Stoyan

I've noticed another problem in the version 4.2.2 preview dlls I sent you - alignment using the ruler guide lines does not work, while it's ok in version 4.2.1. If you need that, I can send you the fixed dlls.

Stoyan

Hi Thorsten,

These are the latest builds:

https://mindfusion.org/_beta/pdfscale.zip

Stoyan

I will add a "wish" for the ability to set the start of the grid.  I am writing an application where I want to be able to start the grid at 0,0 and snap to points out from there.

Is there a quick and dirty method to add either an offset to the grid??

The other possibility might be to draw my containing box at a position other than 0,0 to handle the offset, but that messes up the rulers.

Thanks,
Jeff

Stoyo wrote on Nov 23^rd, 2006 at 6:23pm:


Did you ever add a GridOffset property? If not, are you planning on putting it in the 5.0 release?